If you are building or updating your class, there are two methods for installing content. You can either install an entire textbook in under 2 minutes, using this guide here....
...or you can use this guide to add or update content in an already existing class.
This guide is split between:
Integrated Textbooks
Unintegrated Textbooks
1. Integrated Textbooks
If your textbook is integrated, follow these steps to add content.
1.1. Check for the BT App in Canvas.
1.2. Add Content from Blended Teaching
1.3. Choose the Content, Add
1.4. Position the Content, Publish
1.1. Check for the BT App in Canvas
To add content you first need to ensure that the Blended Teaching App is available in your LMS. To do this, click on "settings" and go to the tab called "Apps". Then click on "View App Configurations". The page will show you a list of installed Apps in alphabetical order. Blended Teaching should be in that list.
If Blended Teaching is not in this list, we'll need to install Blended Teaching as an App. Click here for separate instructions on how to do that.
If you see the App, carry on to step 2.
1.2. Add Content from Blended Teaching
All types of content (video, assignments, quizzes, etc.) are added from Blended Teaching into Canvas in the same way. We'll give you those instructions now, and then drill down into the different content types after.
1.2.1. Start by creating the module structure in Canvas
In Canvas, content is contained in Modules. So the best place to start is by creating the module structure you want on the Home screen. Then we will add the content into those modules.
You may be starting from a previous version of the class that already has the module structure laid out. If so, that's a bit of time saved :)
1.2.2. Add In Content from an External Tool
To add content, follow these steps:
In the "Home" screen, go to the relevant module you would like to add the content to.
Click the "+" button in the grey bar at the top of the module.
This will open a box asking you to "Add Item...".
There is a dropdown menu near the top that says "Add" and then a dropdown menu that probably has pre-selected "Assignment". Click on this to open the dropdown menu and select "External Tool".
It will give you a list of tools you can open. Select Blended Teaching from the list of potential apps.
1.2.3. Bond Your Blended Teaching Textbook to your Canvas Course
If this is your first time in this course linking content in from Blended Teaching, the system will ask you to bond your textbook to your Canvas Course. This will allow grade syncing to work.
To bond your textbook with your Canvas instance:
Click on any of the Blended Teaching materials that you have installed in Canvas.
Click on the blue button Log in to Blended Control Center.
If you are already logged in, it will present you with your textbooks. Select the appropriate textbook from the list that matches the Canvas instance. Note, this step is irreversible. It bonds your Blended Teaching textbook to this Canvas Course. Like swans, they stay together forever. So just make sure you choose the right swan. I mean, textbook.
That's done, you can now close this window. Your textbook is now installed. 🙌
1.3. Choose the Content, Add
Now you're in to your Blended Teaching textbook, and can select chapters that you want to add. You can add them one at a time, or multiple at a time. It's up to you.
To select and add content:
Select the Chapters you want to add by clicking on the tick boxes on the left hand side.
Click the "Add Chapters" button, and it will drop them into your Canvas.
1.4. Position the Content, Publish
Now that the content is in Canvas, you can test it out, move it around to the location you want, add any settings that are helpful, and if you're ready, publish it.
2. Unintegrated Textbooks
In this section of the guide, we're going to show you how to add content from Blended Teaching for unintegrated textbooks, split into the following steps:
Introduction to Unintegrated Linking
Three Types of Content
Preparing Blended Teaching
Creating The Links in Canvas
2.1. Introduction to Unintegrated Linking
For an integrated class, when you add in a Blended Teaching Chapter to your Canvas course, the content appears directly inside Canvas.
For an unintegrated class, the setup superficially looks the same as an integrated class in the Canvas, but when students click on a Chapter, a link will open a new window in their browser where they will see the content on Blended Teaching.
Each student will have their own account with Blended Teaching, and their performance is tracked. You are able to access their performance through your Blended Teaching Control Center.
2.2. Creating The Links in Canvas
If you are happy with the set up of your content in your Blended Teaching Control Center, it's time to install your the content into Canvas.
2.2.1. Create the Outline Structure
In Canvas, content is contained in Modules. So the best place to start is by creating the module structure you want on the Home screen. Then we will add the content into those modules.
You may be starting from a previous version of the class that already has the module structure laid out. If so, that's a bit of time saved :)
2.2.2. Add in Content Chapters
Now that you have the module structures in place in Canvas, it's time to add in links through to the Blended Teaching content.
We're going to start with adding in the introduction pages and video chapters.
In Canvas:
In the module that you want to add content, click the +
In the drop down preceded by the word "Add", select External URL.
You can now leave this window as it is. Move over to the Blended Teaching Control Center in order to find the URL that you will need.
Open a new tab in your browser and go into your Control Center.
Go to the Course Structure tab of the Control Center.
Find the chapter you are looking to link into Canvas, and click on the eye icon to the right to open it up in a Blended Teaching player.
Copy the URL of that page in the Blended Teaching player.
Go back to your Canvas tab, and paste the URL into the URL field.
Then write in the Page Name - we usually recommend the name of the chapter.
Click the Add Item button.
2.2.3 Add in Quizzes
Coming soon.
2.2.4 Add in Assignments
Coming soon.